345 Quotes About Airplane

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'

Everybody is horrified at what they can do, but the truth is the research quantities we're studying are quite modest. And if the building they're in got hit by a bomb or an airplane or a tornado or something like that.

That's how this (movie) felt to me, a real director- actors' piece, with two people just sitting in airplane seats. It's gripping.

He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.

Rocket propulsion was explored -- specifically, a turbo-pump-equipped rocket made by Reaction Motors Inc. Delivering 6,000 pounds of thrust, the acid-aniline-fueled engine was believed to be capable of boosting an airplane to the fringes of the known performance envelope,

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.